Testifying about everything from the president s infamous phone call with ukraine to the shadow of the president , Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal attorney. Lets go to manu raju on capitol hill. I know youve been looking over vindmans transcript right now. What are you learning so far . Reporter its a significant transcript because this is a person who was on that july phone call, someone who serves on the National Council and is involved with the ukranian policy but someone who has serious concerns about the direction this administration was going and what they asked him to do, to investigate his political rivals. Were getting a picture of what happened in that phone call. In here vindman reveals that the acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was involved in this ask, coordinated the ask of the ukranians to investigate the president s political rivals in exchange with a meeting the ukranians had sought at the white house. What vindman says here is he heard the ambassadors of t
Good football game. Take a nice deep breath. You made it. Im christi paul. Glad to have you here. And im martin savidge. We have new details on the impeachment inquiry. Newly released transcripts place acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney directly at the center of the scandal now. Meantime the attorney for john bolton is teasing lawmakers and the white house about what the National Security adviser knows about the scandal. He says bolton has personal knowledge and relevant information that has not been disclosed. And like most americans, President Trump is going to be watching College Football today. Hes headed to tuscaloosa for the showdown between lsu and alabama. This is his third major sport event in just the past two weeks. I want to go straight to cnn correspondent Kristin Holmes right now at the white house talking about the very latest transcripts that were released. They may not be good news obviously for acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. What are you hearing thi
That will do it for this hour of msnbc live. Im dara brown. Time now for my colleague kind is gibson. Kendis gibson. It is 7 00 in the east, 4 00 on the west coast. Its day 27 of the impeachment inquir inquiry. The last 24 hours have been filled with rapid developments surrounding the president. Lets bring you up to speed. New york times reports Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell sees an impeachment trial quote all but inevitable. You heard on thursday acting chief of staff Nick Mulvaney admitting the president was involved in a quid quo pro and take it back later. Mr. Mulvaney gave a confession. His confession was the confession of the president. Msnbc news is confirming guiliani attempted to secure a visa for the man at the center of the fake bind ukraine Conspiracy Theory. Msnbc says it is now expanding. I think this is dangerous precedent and it also is an insult to the fbi, the cia, the National Security council, all of the other agencies. Republicans in congress are still l
We start in the nations capital. The big day ahead in the democrats impeachment inquiry prompted by a whistleblowers accusation that President Trump pressured ukraine to dig up dirt on the biden family in exchange for military aid. In just a few hours the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union, gordon sondland, will testify behind closed doors to three house committees intelligence, foreign affairs, oversight. Sondland was mentioned in the whistleblow whistleblowers complaint and game attention in Text Messages released by the House Democrats. In the texts sondland asked bill taylor to talk to ukraines president and soond land suggested that would lead to a meeting between President Trump and the president of ukraine. Sondland rejected taylors characterization of that arrangement as a quid pro quo. Senior congressional reporter manu raju. Good morning, dave and christine. Another key witness in the ukraine scandal coming to capitol hill, gordon sondland, someone who was involved in con
Administrations. They are following yesterdays testimony from this decorated veteran, Alexander Vindman who told house investigators he raised a red flag immediately after hearing President Trumps call with ukrainian president on july 25th and he said that looking at the white house transcript that was released and what he heard it appears parts were edited which the white house denies. Congress gets ready to open the closed doors and start the public stage of this impeachment inquiry. Lets begin with todays testimony. Our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju joins us on capitol hill. Were expected to hear the lawmakers will hear today is more concerns being raised about the role that rudy giuliai played which has been a consistent theme that the personal attorney worked outside legal channels. Even at a key time these officials were trying to strength relations with a key u. S. Ally. Catherine croft testifies about efforts what she was told about this aid being put on hold for